Heart $ Stroke Lottery review: Confirmation of Ticket 25

OMG I am so happy that I am not the only one that finds this lottery a scam!
Please read this article from the Toronto Star it was written in 2007 and it states that the heart and stroke lottery were sitting on 130 million dollars back inhttp://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/2007/11/29/heartstroke_charity_builds_huge_war_chest.html?app=noRedirect2007. I cannot imagine what they are sitting at now? This article will make you throw up. I will never buy another ticket from them again. 👎👎👎👎👎

BIGGEST SCAM EVER>>>>>HAVE ONLY CERTAIN PEOPLE THAT IS HAND PICKED TO WIN
AND I THINK ITS IS ALSO A RACIST ORGANIZATION MOSTLY CAUCASIANS ARE WINNING

I would like to concur with these complaints also.
I bought the calendar lotto 2 years in a row and noticed the same results. Very few winners from Toronto and many many winners from small towns. SO I called and voiced my complaint directly to the H&S Foundation. Their response to me was totally comical, trying to convince me that it is a lotto and the daily draws are totally random.
I reminded her that the city with the majority of population within Ontario surely must have the majority of the purchases of this lotto, therefore, should also have the majority of winners.
Ridiculous and very very suspicious!

wow its my first and last time buying. I bought 6 calendars and I found it odd that with all the draws per day and month none of the number was picked. It will cost heart and Stroke to televised but they can create a YouTube channel to show the Draw and the actually ticket... Also give winners the option to upload and show their winning calendar plus their cheque. If there is no PUBLIC DRAW stop support this SCAM!

on todays post of winners there was an indication that the winner from Gilford...Robert fortune was advertising an at home money making scheme?what gives with this?also the 15, 000 winner the name "jackpot" was highlighted and when you click on it you get taken to an online gaming site.Then I noticed a bar at the bottom of the page to serf other sites! I try my best to avoid this kind of thing !So if there is no explanation as to why this is happening ...I have bought my LAST 6 calendars (every year for last 3 years! I just noticed the bar at the bottom of this page as well! NO MORE FOR ME>>>THIS IS NONCENSE!

Sorry people i live in a small town and small towns all around us and no one has won in the Niagara area either. My sister bought 6 calendars last Christmas for all of us and not 1 winner of anything. Either they are selling more calendars then they say are allowed or this is a scam. I bought my own this year for myself because i would like to support the cause but if we find out this is a scam i will no longer buy again...and what a shame.

I have been watching all the small town winners over the last couple of years, and agree that it is highly suspicious. It is for this reason that I did not buy any calendars this year. Just look at any month, the amount of winners from small towns, verses the GTA, is far too high, do the math.

I have been checking all year and recently started checking names against Canada.411. My sister bought the calendars for Christmas gifts last year. I bought some with coworkers last year. What a SCAM ! Lots of imaginary people ! Never again !

BIGGEST SCAM EVER! NEVER AGAIN!

OK, so I'm getting that my 15 ticket purchase was likely a waste. I'll never buy this lotto again for two reasons - too many people are noting a disconnect between region sizes and winners - this sounds like a legitimate issue. The other issue is that they spend so much money advertising, that they raise very little money that actually goes to the cause. Why don't they televise the grand prize drawings? Other lotteries do! And, the draw is on July 6, but the results are then quietly published two weeks later, with no word in between? It sounds like a scam to me. I won't buy again, that's for sure.

Yup. What a scam! They have some way of excluding Toronto residents. I will never support the Heart & Stroke Foundation again. Not only will I never buy another one of their stinking calendars, but if they show up at my door to solicit donations I will kick them to the curb. Way to murder a good cause, Heart & Stroke.

Yup. They have so disgusted me that not only will I never buy one of their calendars again, but I will never support the Heart and Stroke Foundation -- sad, but true. Way to murder a good cause, Heart & Stroke.

I called this lottery's customer service line today to enquire as to how numbers are drawn - I was told all numbers are on tokens that are put in a drum and drawn at random (I am doubtful since it would have to be a very large drum!) and asked if the public can be a witness to these draws - I was told that we could as long as we request this a few days before the draw - I suggest that we do this en masse just to set our minds at ease as to the legitimacy of this lottery - I bought 12 of these calendars as gifts (all 12 start with the same 4 digits) and in all this time (2012) - there has only been one number drawn starting with the first 3 digits and absolutely none with the first 4 - SCAM?

I wonder why they don't show the actual drawing of numbers on the ticket? I think its all computer generated. It would be very hard to draw numbers to places which I've never heard about in Ontario. The majority of the tickets are bought in the GTA. If the people buying the tickets don't see that people in their region aren't winning, they won't buy tickets. It's the biggest scam ever. The Heart and Stroke shouldn't be scamming people like this. If they want donations thats different, but bringing in a lottery where the odds of winning in the gta are so low its shameful.

forget about asking the OLG to look into it, they just a big a scam as anyone, this like the $100 lottery is a scam i bough 15 tickects last year and never one even one penny, yet someone from the GTA wins 3 times? ya its a scam

This is the first year I purchased tickets for this calendar lottery so my expectations of this is pretty low. What i've noticed is that their aren't really any asians, african, tamil, indian people winning anything. I know a quite a few asian people who bought into this and haven't seen more than one asian person win. I've also noticed that once you guys complained the results changed! So complain some more!

This is definitely a scam. How is possible that a town with only over 2000 people like Sutton west has 2 winners, kapukasin has 700 and yet a winner! Scarborough with over 600000 people and 3 winners. There many examples that statistically don't correlate with demographics. Toronto including etobicoke and Scarborough have close to 25% of the Ontario population but only 14 winners which represent less than 9% of the current winnings so far. I will contact olg to request an investigation and we should all do the same.

Starting to fell scammed. I live in kingston ontario. No one anywhere CLOSE to here won anythiing. maybe the odd person. Clearly sticking around one area of Ontario...I dont think half the people are even real! this is shaping up scam.

I have noticed that so far this year almost evey sigle winner is eiher near or in the GTA, Guess when you people from that are complain they change it so there are more winners, i live in London Hates White People Canada, and there has not been even one winner within the city and the closest to this city was the early bird winner in Branford Ont, 1 hr from here, from now on i will never support this or any other charity unless i am either personally drawing the numbers or it is done live, otherwise its very easy for them to just put certain numbers in the draw bin, can you say SCAM?

I've had exactly the same observation about the uncanny geographical distribution of winners throughout every nook and cranny of the province, including scores of communities most of us have never even heard of. Half of Ontario's population lives in the GTA, and one quarter lives in the City of Toronto. lf the results of this lottery were legitimate, they would at least somewhat reflect these demographics. An ad on the Heart & Stroke Calendar Lottery web site even reads, 'We're all over the map. Is your town a winner?' Emphasis on the word TOWN. I smell a rat. This organization is clearly manipulating odds to play on anti-Toronto sentiment and freeze out its residents. My days of supporting the Heart and Stroke Foundation are over.

I am having the same issue as the above poster. I ordered three calendars on Oct. 18, 2011 and as of today, Dec. 21, 2011, I still have not received my calendars. Today I contacted the AGCO-Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. Their phone number is [protected] or toll free in Ontario [protected]. Stay on the line and you will eventually be able to speak to a person. They took my complaint very seriously. The woman said she would be phoning the Calendar people and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Ten minutes after I hung up I received a phone call from the "Head of the Calendar Lottery" claiming I would have my calendars by the end of today or he would personally drive them to my house. Iam happy to say that I received my calendars at 2:00pm today Dec. 21, 2011 by courier.

I ordered my calendars for Christmas gifts on October 15th and have received nothing so far. Oh wait. I have received something — the runaround. Big time. They are sent out in packages of three and I ordered nine. So my three packages of three were all misdelivered by Canada Post. Sure. No worries though, they were reprinted and sent out Express Mail on December 6th. December 14th and still nothing. Not even one package of three. I asked if I could pick them up at their Toronto office since I live in the GTA. I held while operator asked a supervisor. Supervisor says no. I have already missed sending them out in Christmas parcels up north due to Christmas mailing deadlines. I would gladly take a refund and donate the money to another charity at this point. Never again.

i noticed that as well. only a few winners from huge cities, and over 80% of the winners are from small unknown unfamiliar cities. i would like to personally contact these so called listed winners to see how many of them are actually legitimate people that have a calendar #. this is interesting finding this online. i was thinking the same thing as these first 2 comments.

As of September 27, 270 days in the year, there have only been 8, count them...8 winners from Toronto.
The biggest city in the province only produces 8 winners.
TOTAL BS!

I strongly agree.
I have rousing suspisions about this lottery.
I find it almost comical how people from small towns of less than 20, 000 people produce multiple winners, yet very few winners are produced from major cities in the GTA which has almost 6 million people!
I'm NEVER buying tickets to this scam ever again!